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September 16, 2015: Jesse Eisenberg Praises Role of Lex Luthor

Talking with Observer.com, actor Jesse Eisenberg speaks about being a part of a "comic book movie", the challenge of playing Lex Luthor, and the all-powerful nature of Superman. Here's a few excerpts from the interview...

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Though the film is top-secret, apparently Mr. Eisenberg feels safe enough to disclose a few things about his debut: "In a lot of ways Luthor is more of a stretch than any character you would do in an independent movie, which is normally the place you stretch. So in that way it was not at all compromised. If anything it was the best, most advantageous role I've ever been given."

"Now people expect the tone to be more realistic just because we live in a world where the average audience member has a sense of psychological motivations... [It raises the question] how can one man - Superman - have so much power? These are the kind of things that we talk about when we think about authoritarian states, when we talk about Vladimir Putin having a strong foothold in Eastern Europe. They're addressing geopolitics in this movie and not in a way that's pretentious or esoteric."

Read the complete interview at Observer.com.